Ground Control
Ground Control
Ground Control is a 1998 American disaster thriller film directed by Richard Howard and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce McGill, Kristy Swanson, and Robert Sean Leonard. The film also features a cameo by former baseball player Steve Sax in the role of an airline co-pilot
A seasoned air traffic controller’s career ends when he fails to prevent a devastating plane crash. Summoned back to the job when there is a serious lack of available manpower, he suffers harrowing flashbacks and has to deal with the presence of a whiz-kid rival.
- Release Date: 26th August 1998
- Director: Richard Howard
- Kiefer Sutherland: Jack Harris
Cast
- Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Harris
- Bruce McGill as T.C. Bryant
- Kristy Swanson as Julie Albrecht
- Robert Sean Leonard as Cruise
- Kelly McGillis as Susan Stratton
- Margaret Cho as Amanda
- Charles Fleischer as Randy
- Henry Winkler as John Quinn
- Farrah Forke as Laura Franklin
- Michael Gross as Murray
- Jack Plotnick as Curtis
- Brian George as Shamaal
- John Bennett Perry as Senator Rutherford
- Eleanor Mondale as Christine
- Alex Wexo as Flight 393 Pilot
- John Nielsen as “pissed off” pilot
- Drew Snyder as David, Pilot, Flight 47
- Steve Sax as Co-pilot, Flight 47
- Ruben Paul as Sam
- Vito D’Ambrosio as weather analyst